Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-07
GWINNETT STREET NEEDS
PROPERTY OWNERS ANXIOUS
FOR ASPHALT PAVEMENT.

A Petition for the Improvement OF the
Street East of the Park Extension to
be Presented to the City Council This
Wesk-A Proposition to the City.
The property owners on Gwinnett
petition the City Council at its meeting
on Wednesday night for an asphalt paved
roadway east of Drayton street as far as
Habersham.
The property frontage on Gwinnett
street, between Drayton and Habersham,
is 1889 feet. The owners of 929 feet-con-
slderahly more than one-half ofthis 'front.'
age-have signed petition asking for the
pavement.
The street is 80 feet wide with Is feet
wide sidewalks, leaving the distance be-
tween the sidewalk curbing 80 feet. The
proposition is to pave roadway u feet
wide, leaving grass plat III teet wide
ON each side of the pavement. This will
give handsome and sufficiently wide
drive. The grass plat Will lessen con-
siderably the cost OF the Improvement,
ana Will at the same time add to the ap-
pearaflce of the street. The petition to
Council asking for the pavement contains
this provision: "Upon condition that
the frontage OF intersecting streets be
charged pr0-rata to the corporate &C
count of the city of Savannah, precisely
as the fronts OF lots to the property hold
ers."
The matter Of paving street intersec-
tlons has been discussed ever since
Broughton street was paved year ago.
since the petition for paving Gwinnett
street has been circulated, a number OF
property owners interested IN the i'm
proVement have signed another petition
In which they urge the granting of the
pavement, and in furtherance of such
measure they make the representations:
First, that they waive all objections to
the payment OF the intersections Of Lincoln
ana Abercorn streets, which are the only
two streets crossing the area to be paved
Second, that three of the petitioners, in
their anxiety for the protection of their
valuable improvements on the street, will
assume to themselves the expense OF
paving the legal two-thirds of LINCOLN
street, leaving TO the general account
the expense or the legal two-thirds of
Abercorn street.
A hardened roadway Of some
Kind they say is necessary for
the protection from fire not only of
street, but upon adjoining streets, north
and south, already erected aud to be
erected in the near future. For the pur-
pose OF securing better protection from
fire, one OF the petitioners has agreed to
donate to the city lot IS feet wide and
105 feet deep upon any Of the streets run.
ming parallel with Gwinnett and Ander-
son streets, and east of Price street, to
be used as a site for an engine or hose
carriage house, the lot being donated
upon condition that thepavement asked
for in the petition be laid before Aug.
next.
The sIgners of the petition state that
the improvement for which they will pay
twO-thlrds of the cost, is not simply for
the ornamentati0n of their properties, but
for the substantial and desirable protec-
ton from fire of the highly assessable and
taxable properties upon the streets in
close proximity to Gwinnett street, al
ready built or to be built. Gwinnett
street will, in all probability, in the near
future, become thoroughfare Tor pleas
ure driving to the Thunderb0lt road, and
with this in view the pavement asked for
is in the nature Of necessity.
The property owners who have signed
the petition asking for the Improvement
are in earnest about the matter. They
are anxious 10 have it made, and at as
early day as possible. The property
owners on the street between Drayton
and Habersham are 5. Krouskod, Thomas
Ennis, trustee; VIM. L. Humphreys, W.
b. Howe, Capt. e. S. Ellis. Ed. Harrow,
Megler estate. A. A. AVeiihe, 4. +, Dur
bee, j. +. Kavanaugh, Mrs. Mary E. Jau-
don. VIM. Rogers, Thomas Ballantyne,
G. V. Snedsker, T. q. Bryan, Mrs. A,
Gogorza, Mrs. NJ. NJ. Macean, D. G..
Bacon, Mrs. F. N. Smith, Mrs. NJ. LaFar.
w. p. Hardee, Mrs. Z. l.. Cohen, Mrs. V.
L. Drane, A. s. Bacon, G. c. Myers, G. Y.
Richardson. Mrs. 5, G. Shellman.
Those who signed the petition are S.
Krouskoff, Capt. c. S. Ellis, j. F. KAY
anaugh, William Rogers, G. V. snedeker,
L. q. Bryan. Mrs. A. GOgorZa, d. G.
Bacon, Mrs. f. n. Smith, Mrs. NJ. LaFar,
A. 5. Bacon, G. Y. Richardson, s. C.
Shellman.